Re:Good thing Bill G has an ego or IE would rule
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COnsidering that last stats from statmarket.com, Netscape only has 11.2% of the market share (IE has 88.5%)and is going down quickly... so I'd probably go out on a limb and say that most of the Netscape users are hard core geeks, or users of older systems which always had Netscape and they can't be bothered with upgrading yet... It's sad, but it's true... IE won... and now with all the bad press Netscape 6 is getting, there's no chance in hell for NS to ever come back... Ah well, to be honest, it's not that big of a loss... *shrug* How many Linux users actually would use NS6 to Mozilla anyhow? eek...
Another user here mentioned that Gamechoice Club had a good reputation... and check this out:
Shinco-868 DVD/VCD/MP3 Player - PAL/AUTO/NTSC
- DVD, SVCD & VCD, CD-R/CD-RW Compatible
- Built in Sega Mega Drive Emulator that plays the Mega Drive game's ROM data on CD
- 10 bit Video D/A Converter
- Horizontal Resolution : More than 500 lines.
Notice item #3? There's obviously something going on here, no?
You almost made spit my coffee out, sheesh... not supposed to sneak it jabs like that, so unfair...
Re:Damned if you do, Damned if you don't
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Golden Rice
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Never said it would be easy, but considering the extra "fattening" food is already being made (for us), the world powers could easily get together and actually TRY to feed the poorer countries (save the billions from useless genetic engineering like Golden Rice)... But of course, that would mean taking some food away from the people who are used to going to McD's to eat those 3 burgers and then heading over to the pub for a huge plate of fries and beer... then having a pizza that same night with more beer to watch the hockey game... THAT would be the hard part (since most people, unfortunately, just don't give a damn about the poorer countries).
From Anandtech's article on the future of video card manufaturers, 3dfx is basically going to license Quantum3D to manufacture the cards, nullifying the entire purchase of STB, which started the whole process of 3Dfx (with a capital D back then) creating their own cards... Nothing will change, 'scept 3dfx will be able to focus more on creating the chipsets (which'll be a GOOD thing, since their latest ones have been pretty shoddy).
Re:Damned if you do, Damned if you don't
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Golden Rice
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Given the yelling and screaming about FrankenFood(tm), I can really appreciate the need for extraordinary caution. But there has GOT to be some way to do this sort of thing right.
Considering that there's enough food in this world to feed every single person sufficiently, there is NO need for FrankenFood whatsoever... of course, as other posters have already stated, companies are creating these genetically modified foods to "corner the market"... either to force farmers to pay for "licenses" every year for grain or to sell at a low price now then hike the price... whatever the way, it's still horrible... Stop the overfeeding/fattening of the 1st world countries and feed the poorer countries.. we'd all live happily ever after (more or less)...
The 386 (faster than a 286, but oh so expensive, and no one uses 32 bit apps yet anyway)
But the less expensive (by $700) AMD Athlon is also faster... (the price also doesn't include the new motherboard, case, power supply and fans you have to buy!) And, uh, P4 is still 32bit...
The 486 (who needs a math co-processor? Geez it's expensive)
Same argument as above...
The Pentium (Gosh 486's are available with the same or higher clock speed)
The Pentium was a major leap forward from the 486, bringing forward major speed advancements... Sure, the P4 is technically nicer, (but for now, at least) they are slower and more expensive.
The Pentium Pro (16 bit apps actually run _slower_)
Again, the P4 and P3/Athlon are all 32bit... so I'm not sure what you're getting at... The Athlon runs 32bit programs faster then the P4 does...
The Pentium II (oh, bummer, L2 cache is at half-speed, PPro is so much better...)
A quote from Tom's "informants":
In some ways, the 1st generation P4 is a bit like the Pentium Pro in Socket8, which enjoyed a rather short life before getting replaced by PII/Slot1. By the time Northwood/Brookdale is launched, Willamette/i850 will be completely phased out.
Basically, the PPro was simply a test run, since Intel isn't stupid - they know when they're next chips are coming out way before we do... The P4 is nothing but a place-holder (or short-term filter" as Tom calls it) before Intel actually brings something worthwhile out...
Thing is, the Voodoo 2 was made in the day when the licensed their chips - which is what they're going back to. They started to make their own cards with the Voodoo 3, and couldn't handle the competition from that point on... I think going back to the old way is a good idea - then we might actually see some good stuff from them again (since they can focus on what they're good at!)
I just don't understand... Why are people putting this to a "Gore vs Bush" debate, and blaming Nader from taking the votes from Gore, when, at least in my (and other Green party member's minds), it's "Nader vs Corporate Power"...
If you think of it that way, Nader isn't taking votes away from Gore, he's taking votes away from the two evils that will be running the country. Every election, the more Nader (the Green Party) chip away at the big two, the more chances we have of having a better country to live in!
Well I know that Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario couldn't care less about MP3 trading, since I haven't heard a single peep in the 3 years I was there... of course, since most people are using cable modems and not the internal network (which sucks), then that might account for something...
Also, Carleton University in Ottawa seems to have not said anything (at least publicly) for the year I've been there. *shrug* Ditto for my friend in University of Waterloo (although they cut down bandwith allowance quite a bit recently, so that may mean something).
You'd be surprised how many conservative gays there are. Here in Canada, a large number of gay men and women will be voting for the very right-wing Stockwell Day... *shrug* One answer a friend gave to me was that, yes, he's against gay marriage, but that's one bad thing compared to all the good things (his words) that Day will be doing... we'll fight for marriage later on. Ah well...
Sure, it's most likely script written, but I'm glad that so many people answered the questions. Sure, if I were American, I still would never vote for Bush, but I'm glad he has the guts to have his views answered like that. Of course, as usual, he completely ignored topics that I wish he would get into... For example, for religions, he gave the exact same answers (and wording) to Web White and Blue's question about religion, except he didn't put in the Wicca part... (that's a bad thing, considering it was half the question). Anyway, thanks Slashdot for letting me read them!
Oh, and I'm ticked off about Bush' answer to the Seattle protests. **rightwinggrumblegrumble**
Also next year, Intel will probably announce an ultralow-voltage 500-MHz chip for subnotebooks that should be extremely battery-friendly. The company demonstrated a processor running at 300-MHz.
When Intel Corp.'s Frank Spindler disclosed that the chip giant is fast tracking the production of a new ultra-low-power chip for notebooks, there was an interested eavesdropper nearby.
SAN JOSE, Calif.--Intel said it will enhance energy-saving features in processors for laptops and begin shipping new mobile Pentium chips next year as competition intensifies.
True, true... It -is- a pretty good board, but then, you're forced to pay extra money to get things you don't want (how many actually want the integrated graphics in these boards??)... at least they offered an AGP slot this time... You know there's a problem, though, when M/B makers are still pumping out BX boards (with ATA100, etc. on them)... Intel needs to make such a board again.
HardOCP had a link on their page yesterday pointing to TurboTech and an pretty damaging, but generally truthful, editorial... If you are an Intel fan, well, skip this message:)
HardOCP quoted this part, which is a pretty good one:
September 2000 - Intel's blackest month in countless years. Following the official withdrawal of the 1.13 GHz PIII in the last days of August, in the wake of this face-loss it also became pretty obvious that Intel will have to ditch the grandiose plans of breathing new life into the dying P6 core with a 200 MHz FSB, a 0.13 micron process, and larger on-die L2 caches. It seems the Coppermine core (the last and most advanced modification of the half a decade old P6 core, introduced in the Pentium Pro 150 MHz in the mid-90s) simply won't be able to go much further.
Kyle at HardOCP posted up a link to an interesting synopsis of an AMD seminar. AMD confirmed that VIA would be supplying an SMP chipset which will be able to run two Socket A CPUs.
These should be available this fall. As we all know; VIA has no problem introducing a new chipset to the motherboard manufacturers and no doubt will have no problem getting boards made with their chipset. As many of us know, the same Irongate chipset that many of us use for Slot A Athlons was perfectly capable of running the Socket A CPUs as well and was always available to motherboard manufacturers. Despite this, manufacturers still opted to use a VIA chipset instead and delay availability of their boards because of this.
Sorry for the bad link (it worked in the preview before posting, very odd), but the main point was to use test@test.com as an e-mail if the user was too lazy...
Most people don't tend to put their real e-mail address (to avoid spam), so might as well just use that one...
In case you haven't seen any yet (and you can't get on the site), you can get them here and here.
(hmm.. the trailer is months old... how's that new?)
Re:Conceding your lawsuit is baseless?
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RIAA CEO Speaks
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Thing is, though, whenever most people swap CDs they kinda enjoyed, they always make a backup on tape... so you STILL can listen to the music... er, at least that's what I always did.
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COnsidering that last stats from statmarket.com, Netscape only has 11.2% of the market share (IE has 88.5%)and is going down quickly... so I'd probably go out on a limb and say that most of the Netscape users are hard core geeks, or users of older systems which always had Netscape and they can't be bothered with upgrading yet... It's sad, but it's true ... IE won... and now with all the bad press Netscape 6 is getting, there's no chance in hell for NS to ever come back... Ah well, to be honest, it's not that big of a loss... *shrug* How many Linux users actually would use NS6 to Mozilla anyhow? eek...
Another user here mentioned that Gamechoice Club had a good reputation... and check this out:
/AUTO /NTSC
Shinco-868 DVD/VCD/MP3 Player
- PAL
- DVD, SVCD & VCD, CD-R/CD-RW Compatible
- Built in Sega Mega Drive Emulator that plays the Mega Drive game's ROM data on CD
- 10 bit Video D/A Converter
- Horizontal Resolution : More than 500 lines.
Notice item #3? There's obviously something going on here, no?
You almost made spit my coffee out, sheesh... not supposed to sneak it jabs like that, so unfair...
Never said it would be easy, but considering the extra "fattening" food is already being made (for us), the world powers could easily get together and actually TRY to feed the poorer countries (save the billions from useless genetic engineering like Golden Rice)... But of course, that would mean taking some food away from the people who are used to going to McD's to eat those 3 burgers and then heading over to the pub for a huge plate of fries and beer... then having a pizza that same night with more beer to watch the hockey game... THAT would be the hard part (since most people, unfortunately, just don't give a damn about the poorer countries).
From Anandtech's article on the future of video card manufaturers, 3dfx is basically going to license Quantum3D to manufacture the cards, nullifying the entire purchase of STB, which started the whole process of 3Dfx (with a capital D back then) creating their own cards... Nothing will change, 'scept 3dfx will be able to focus more on creating the chipsets (which'll be a GOOD thing, since their latest ones have been pretty shoddy).
Given the yelling and screaming about FrankenFood(tm), I can really appreciate the need for extraordinary caution. But there has GOT to be some way to do this sort of thing right.
... either to force farmers to pay for "licenses" every year for grain or to sell at a low price now then hike the price... whatever the way, it's still horrible... Stop the overfeeding/fattening of the 1st world countries and feed the poorer countries.. we'd all live happily ever after (more or less)...
Considering that there's enough food in this world to feed every single person sufficiently, there is NO need for FrankenFood whatsoever... of course, as other posters have already stated, companies are creating these genetically modified foods to "corner the market"
Some unprofessional retorts, if I may:
The 386 (faster than a 286, but oh so expensive, and no one uses 32 bit apps yet anyway)
But the less expensive (by $700) AMD Athlon is also faster... (the price also doesn't include the new motherboard, case, power supply and fans you have to buy!) And, uh, P4 is still 32bit...
The 486 (who needs a math co-processor? Geez it's expensive)
Same argument as above...
The Pentium (Gosh 486's are available with the same or higher clock speed)
The Pentium was a major leap forward from the 486, bringing forward major speed advancements... Sure, the P4 is technically nicer, (but for now, at least) they are slower and more expensive.
The Pentium Pro (16 bit apps actually run _slower_)
Again, the P4 and P3/Athlon are all 32bit... so I'm not sure what you're getting at... The Athlon runs 32bit programs faster then the P4 does...
The Pentium II (oh, bummer, L2 cache is at half-speed, PPro is so much better...)
A quote from Tom's "informants":
In some ways, the 1st generation P4 is a bit like the Pentium Pro in Socket8, which enjoyed a rather short life before getting replaced by PII/Slot1. By the time Northwood/Brookdale is launched, Willamette/i850 will be completely phased out.
Basically, the PPro was simply a test run, since Intel isn't stupid - they know when they're next chips are coming out way before we do... The P4 is nothing but a place-holder (or short-term filter" as Tom calls it) before Intel actually brings something worthwhile out...
May be true, but IE 5.5 loads faster on my Mac then Nescape does... how do you explain that one?
Thing is, the Voodoo 2 was made in the day when the licensed their chips - which is what they're going back to. They started to make their own cards with the Voodoo 3, and couldn't handle the competition from that point on... I think going back to the old way is a good idea - then we might actually see some good stuff from them again (since they can focus on what they're good at!)
I just don't understand... Why are people putting this to a "Gore vs Bush" debate, and blaming Nader from taking the votes from Gore, when, at least in my (and other Green party member's minds), it's "Nader vs Corporate Power"...
If you think of it that way, Nader isn't taking votes away from Gore, he's taking votes away from the two evils that will be running the country. Every election, the more Nader (the Green Party) chip away at the big two, the more chances we have of having a better country to live in!
Well I know that Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario couldn't care less about MP3 trading, since I haven't heard a single peep in the 3 years I was there... of course, since most people are using cable modems and not the internal network (which sucks), then that might account for something...
Also, Carleton University in Ottawa seems to have not said anything (at least publicly) for the year I've been there. *shrug* Ditto for my friend in University of Waterloo (although they cut down bandwith allowance quite a bit recently, so that may mean something).
You'd be surprised how many conservative gays there are. Here in Canada, a large number of gay men and women will be voting for the very right-wing Stockwell Day... *shrug* One answer a friend gave to me was that, yes, he's against gay marriage, but that's one bad thing compared to all the good things (his words) that Day will be doing... we'll fight for marriage later on. Ah well...
In case you didn't read the other posts, check out http://www.webwhite blu e.org/debate/2000-10-15/bush/question/ to see where he says he doesn't believe it is a religion. It's basically the same answer, though.
Sure, it's most likely script written, but I'm glad that so many people answered the questions. Sure, if I were American, I still would never vote for Bush, but I'm glad he has the guts to have his views answered like that. Of course, as usual, he completely ignored topics that I wish he would get into... For example, for religions, he gave the exact same answers (and wording) to Web White and Blue's question about religion, except he didn't put in the Wicca part... (that's a bad thing, considering it was half the question). Anyway, thanks Slashdot for letting me read them!
Oh, and I'm ticked off about Bush' answer to the Seattle protests. **rightwinggrumblegrumble**
It would seem the above links aren't helpful at this time, so here's a few that might shed some light in this already ageing news piece:
/news/0-1003-200-3156114.html?tag=st.ne.1002.thed. ni
- http://www.pcworld.com/news/ar tic le.asp?aid=31482
Also next year, Intel will probably announce an ultralow-voltage 500-MHz chip for subnotebooks that should be extremely battery-friendly. The company demonstrated a processor running at 300-MHz.
- http://www.zdnet.c om/ zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2639424,00.html
When Intel Corp.'s Frank Spindler disclosed that the chip giant is fast tracking the production of a new ultra-low-power chip for notebooks, there was an interested eavesdropper nearby.
- http://cnet. com
SAN JOSE, Calif.--Intel said it will enhance energy-saving features in processors for laptops and begin shipping new mobile Pentium chips next year as competition intensifies.
True, true... It -is- a pretty good board, but then, you're forced to pay extra money to get things you don't want (how many actually want the integrated graphics in these boards??)... at least they offered an AGP slot this time... You know there's a problem, though, when M/B makers are still pumping out BX boards (with ATA100, etc. on them)... Intel needs to make such a board again.
HardOCP had a link on their page yesterday pointing to TurboTech and an pretty damaging, but generally truthful, editorial... If you are an Intel fan, well, skip this message :)
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http://www. tur botech.ch/articles2000/001001-intels_darkening-01
HardOCP quoted this part, which is a pretty good one:
September 2000 - Intel's blackest month in countless years. Following the official withdrawal of the 1.13 GHz PIII in the last days of August, in the wake of this face-loss it also became pretty obvious that Intel will have to ditch the grandiose plans of breathing new life into the dying P6 core with a 200 MHz FSB, a 0.13 micron process, and larger on-die L2 caches. It seems the Coppermine core (the last and most advanced modification of the half a decade old P6 core, introduced in the Pentium Pro 150 MHz in the mid-90s) simply won't be able to go much further.
Kyle at HardOCP posted up a link to an interesting synopsis of an AMD seminar. AMD confirmed that VIA would be supplying an SMP chipset which will be able to run two Socket A CPUs.
These should be available this fall. As we all know; VIA has no problem introducing a new chipset to the motherboard manufacturers and no doubt will have no problem getting boards made with their chipset. As many of us know, the same Irongate chipset that many of us use for Slot A Athlons was perfectly capable of running the Socket A CPUs as well and was always available to motherboard manufacturers. Despite this, manufacturers still opted to use a VIA chipset instead and delay availability of their boards because of this.
Sorry for the bad link (it worked in the preview before posting, very odd), but the main point was to use test@test.com as an e-mail if the user was too lazy...
Most people don't tend to put their real e-mail address (to avoid spam), so might as well just use that one...
To view the ceremony, go ... If you're too lazy to register, then just use the e-mail addy test@test.com
Er, duh.. The /I was removed when I posted.. *sigh* Anyway, it's there.
(and yeah, it's Hemos, and not Taco.. *sigh* Long day at work)
Uh, check the code...
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It's closed. Normal Slashdot as usual, except for the fact that CmdrTaco didn't write a comment. (which, then, wouldn't be italized).
Uh, check the code...
(req. quicktime)."
It's closed. Normal Slashdot as usual, except for the fact that CmdrTaco didn't write a comment. (which, then, wouldn't be italized).
In case you haven't seen any yet (and you can't get on the site), you can get them here and here.
(hmm.. the trailer is months old... how's that new?)
Thing is, though, whenever most people swap CDs they kinda enjoyed, they always make a backup on tape... so you STILL can listen to the music... er, at least that's what I always did.